Potsdam Agreement
The
PotsdamPotsdam Agreement (German: Potsdamer Abkommen) was the agreement
between three of the Allies of World War II, the United Kingdom, the
United States, and the Soviet Union. It concerned the military
occupation and reconstruction of Germany, its borders, and the entire
European Theatre of War territory. It also addressed Germany's
demilitarisation, reparations and the prosecution of war criminals.
Executed as a communiqué, the agreement was not a peace treaty
according to international law, although it created accomplished
facts. It was superseded by the Treaty on the Final Settlement with
Respect to Germany signed on 12 September 1990.
As De Gaulle had not been invited to the Conference, the French
resisted implementing the
PotsdamPotsdam Agreements within their occupation
zone. In particular, the French refused to resettle any expelled
Germans from the east
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Peace Of Riga
The Peace of Riga, also known as the Treaty of
RigaRiga (Polish: Traktat
Ryski), was signed in
RigaRiga on 18 March 1921, between Poland, Soviet
Russia (acting also on behalf of Soviet Belarus) and Soviet Ukraine.
The treaty ended the Polish–Soviet War.[2]
The Soviet-Polish borders established by the treaty remained in force
until the Second World War. They were later redrawn during the Yalta
Conference and Potsdam Conference.Contents1 Background
2 Negotiations
3 Terms
4 Treaty aftermath
5 Further consequences
6 See also
7 Notes
8 ReferencesBackground[edit]
Further information: Polish–Soviet War
World War IWorld War I removed former imperial borders across Europe
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Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS[1] (3
January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman of the Labour
Party who served as
Prime Minister of the United KingdomPrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to
1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. In 1940, Attlee
took Labour into the wartime coalition government and served under
Winston Churchill, becoming the first person to hold the office of
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He went on to lead the
Labour Party to an unexpected landslide victory at the 1945 general
election; forming the first Labour majority government, and a mandate
to implement its postwar reforms
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin[note 1] (18 December 1878 – 5 March
1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian ethnicity.
Governing the
Soviet UnionSoviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953,
he served as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the
Soviet UnionSoviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and as Premier
of the
Soviet UnionSoviet Union from 1941 to 1953. Initially heading a collective
one-party state government, by 1937 he was the country's de facto
dictator. Ideologically a Marxist and a Leninist, Stalin helped to
formalise these ideas as Marxism–
LeninismLeninism while his own policies
became known as Stalinism.
Raised into a poor family in Gori, Russian Empire, as a youth Stalin
joined the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
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WikisourceWikisourceWikisource is an online digital library of free content textual
sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation.
WikisourceWikisource is
the name of the project as a whole and the name for each instance of
that project (each instance usually representing a different
language); multiple Wikisources make up the overall project of
Wikisource. The project's aims are to host all forms of free text, in
many languages, and translations. Originally conceived as an archive
to store useful or important historical texts (its first text was the
Déclaration universelle des Droits de l'Homme), it has expanded to
become a general-content library. The project officially began in
November 24, 2003 under the name Project Sourceberg, a play on the
famous Project Gutenberg. The name
WikisourceWikisource was adopted later that
year and it received its own domain name seven months later
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United Kingdom General Election, 1945
Winston Churchill
ConservativeAppointed Prime Minister
Clement Attlee
Labour1931 election
MPs1935 election
MPs1945 election
MPs1950 election
MPs1951 election
MPsThe 1945
United KingdomUnited Kingdom general election was held on 5 July 1945, with
polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and
Colne until 19 July, because of local wakes weeks.[1] The results were
counted and declared on 26 July, to allow time to transport the votes
of those serving overseas.
The result was an unexpected landslide victory for Clement Attlee's
Labour Party, over Winston Churchill's Conservatives.[2] It was the
first time the Conservatives had lost the popular vote since the 1906
election; they would not win it again until 1955
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Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG OM CH TD DL FRS RA (30
November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician, army
officer, and writer, serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As a Member of
Parliament (MP), he represented five constituencies during his career.
As Prime Minister, Churchill oversaw British victory in the Second
World War. Ideologically an economic liberal and British imperialist,
he was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924 before joining
the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955.
Born in
OxfordshireOxfordshire to an aristocratic family, Churchill was the son
of an English politician and an American socialite. Joining the
British Army, he saw action in British India, the Anglo–Sudan War,
and the Second
BoerBoer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and
writing books about his campaigns
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Munich Agreement
The
MunichMunich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's
annexation of portions of
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia along the country's borders
mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial
designation, the "Sudetenland", was coined. The agreement was signed
in the early hours of 30 September 1938 (but dated 29 September) after
being negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the
major powers of Europe, excluding the Soviet Union. Today, it is
widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement toward Germany. The
purpose of the conference was to discuss the future of the Sudetenland
in the face of demands made by Adolf Hitler. The agreement was signed
by Germany, France, the
United KingdomUnited Kingdom and Italy
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Treaty Of Versailles
The Treaty of
VersaillesVersailles (French: Traité de Versailles) was the most
important of the peace treaties that brought
World War IWorld War I to an end.
The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied
Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919 in Versailles, exactly five
years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which
directly lead to World War I. The other
Central PowersCentral Powers on the German
side of
World War IWorld War I signed separate treaties.[8] Although the
armistice, signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it
took six months of Allied negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference
to conclude the peace treaty
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